shut
/ʃʌt/
Dictionary
adjective
- Closed, shut.
- Narrow; confined.
"a close alley; close quarters"
- At a little distance; near.
"Is your house close?"
- Intimate; well-loved.
"He is a close friend."
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- (Ireland, England, Scotland) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- (of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
"a close prisoner"
- Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
"a close contest"
- Short.
"to cut grass or hair close"
- Dense; solid; compact.
- Concise; to the point.
"close reasoning"
- Difficult to obtain.
"Money is close."
- Parsimonious; stingy.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
"a close translation"
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
"The patient was kept under close observation."
- Marked, evident.
noun
- The act or time of shutting; close.
"the shut of a door"
- A door or cover; a shutter.
- The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
verb
- To close, to stop from being open.
"Please shut the door."
- To close, to stop being open.
"If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut."
- To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.
"The pharmacy is shut on Sunday."
- To confine in an enclosed area.
"I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out."
- To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
"He's just shut his finger in the door."
- To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
adjective
- Closed.
"A shut door barred our way into the house."
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